likewise also the men, having left the natural use of the woman, burned in their desire towards one another; men with men working out disgrace, and receiving the reward of their error among themselves which it behooved.

and as Isaiah has before spoken; Unless the Lord of Sabaoth left to us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and would have been made like unto Gomorrah:

Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars: and I am left alone, and they are seeking my life.

But what says the answer to him? I have left unto myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

Thus then there is even at this time a remnant left according to the election of grace: